These days Wivenhoe is our most regular venue, being less than 20km from home and yielding these types of fish… we’re not complaining.
Fishing local systems and familiar territories
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UR ever-evolving reality in these ‘interesting’ times has changed our perception of many aspects of life. Many of us had fishing trips to venues far afield routinely scheduled for
Fishing for Sport by NEIL SCHULTZ
our angling year before ‘travel restrictions’ and ‘border closures’ became part of our vocabulary.
Living so close to Queensland's southern border meant that NSW waters were regular
Graham’s spotty mackerel was the result of getting to know the movements of baitfish and predators close to home on Moreton Bay. Page 90 – Bush ’n Beach Fishing, November 2021
haunts for thousands of Bush ‘n Beach magazine readers, myself included. The percentage of my fishing south of the border was not obvious until after border closures became necessary to slow the spread of the virus. A winter favourite, all of my luderick outings were undertaken in northern NSW and have been missing from my calendar for a couple of seasons now. A significant chunk of my Murray cod angling too was undertaken on the southern side of the border. Likewise, fishing for bass on the big rivers, chasing schools of salmon from the beach and flicking flies at trout in the New England high
country have been sorely missed over the past two years. On the positive side of the ‘new norm’, fishing our local systems has highlighted the benefits of angling familiar territory. Fishing locations close to home tend to be those on which we spend the most time. This in turn translates to the habits and seasonal movements of fish becoming familiar to us. Regularly productive locations within a lake, reef or river are added to our knowledge base and allow more time to be spent at these hot spots. For example, Moreton Bay can be hard to crack for newcomers to the re* continued P91
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